How athletic is the American buffalo? R. Wayne Bramble (Walhalla, North Dakota)
Bison are amazing animals. Despite weighing as much as a ton, the shaggy behemoths of the Great Plains can run up to 40 mph, jump a six-foot fence vertically, quickly pivot to combat predators and they are strong swimmers. Plains Indian warriors considered them a more worthy opponent than mano-a-mano combat.
The Plains Indians of North America re
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